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fat farm

noun

Slang.
  1. a sanitarium or a resort that specializes in helping people lose weight.



fat farm

noun

  1. slanga health farm or similar establishment to which people go to lose weight

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fat farm1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Idioms and Phrases

A clinic or resort where people go to lose weight, as in She spends all her vacations at a fat farm but it hasn't helped so far. This is a somewhat derisive term for such an establishment. [Colloquial; 1960s]
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He weighed an astonishing 15 kilograms—three times more than the average macaque—before he went to the monkey equivalent of a fat farm.

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I’m starting to suspect Chef Howie is trying to drum up business for some secret fat farm he has invested in.

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Instead, Taylor says, it will send recruits who aren’t fit enough to what he calls “the fat farm,” a special program to get newcomers up to standard before they start basic training.

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After dinner he went out for his nightly exercise walk, using the pedometer he had brought home with him from the fat farm.

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Fitness vacations have ventured far from the fat farm.

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